Shopping with WS

Lake Oswego, Oregon, the community outside of Portland where WS called home has decided to name a shopping block after the poet. But this doesn't seem like a regular strip mall. The community newspaper reports:

Stafford Commons, first announced in May 2005, combines retail and office space with eight live/work units for creative professionals.

Tenants so far include Umpqa Bank, who sees itself as providing "something other than an errand." Further,

Half of the office space in Stafford Commons is also filled, with offices for an attorney, psychiatrist and financial group planned.

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owners have turned down a number of fast food tenants for the space. Ideally, ...they sought a specialty shop that would blend with the downtown’s current mix of retailers.

Another story tells that

Drew Prell and Jim Morton, developers of the new Stafford Commons, commissioned Frank Boyden to develop the sculpture, “The Way It Is,” to honor Lake Oswego poet William Stafford, who died in 1993.